Safedry Restoration

Water Damage Restoration

When your home is being threatened by water damage from flooding or leaks, Safedry Restoration Professionals have the expertise to prevent or mitigate the devastating effects water damage can have in order to help preserve and restore your property.

Fire Damage Restoration

Fire damage can be extensive and traumatic. During these times we are leaders in fire restoration. We can handle any commercial or residential fire no matter the size.

Smoke damage is also a large part of fire cleanup. Soot can ruin personal property even if it was not affected by the fire. Being soot and smoke restoration experts, let us at Safe Dry Restoration be the professionals who return your property back to normal.

MOLD REMEDIATION

There may be mold growing in your home. Like all fungi, mold feeds on the organic materials that can be found on non-synthetic surface areas that contain moisture. Our experienced team of Certified Professionals can find pockets of hidden mold that may be causing serious harm.

At present, there are limited options available to custodians of documentary resources who wish to extend the life of portions of their collections. If they are dealing with acidic paper, it can be deacidified either item-by-item or How To Restore Flood Damaged Pictures y sending it to a vendor of a mass deacidification treatment.

Mass deacidification has yet to materialize as a practical option. It may still become an effective treatment that will substantially slow the chemical deterioration of paper. It should, however, be remembered that mass How To Restore Flood Damaged Pictures deacidification is not a strengthening process, and that is it does not restore flexibility or strength to paper that is already seriously brittle.

It is most effective when applied to relatively new acidic paper before the process of embrittlement has begun. Another option is to reformat a document or book to capture as much as possible of the How To Restore Flood Damaged Pictures information that it contains.

This is most often done by How To Restore Flood Damaged Pictures microfilming or photocopying onto alkaline paper. There also is an increasing number of model projects experimenting with digitization. Several caveats must be kept in mind regarding all such projects.

Generally accepted technical standards govern archival photocopying, and any repository embarking on such a project should follow the standards carefully. Filming must also be done in accordance with existing national How To Restore Flood Damaged Pictures standards and the archival negative must be stored under carefully controlled environmental conditions if the product is to be considered a true preservation microfilm.

It takes a substantial amount of knowledge to manage a preservation filming project, and it is advisable to seek the assistance of a knowledgeable consultant when setting up and monitoring such a How To Restore Flood Damaged Pictures project.

Finally, it is premature for any except the most sophisticated How To Restore Flood Damaged Pictures repositories with highly trained personnel to consider digitization. While much has been learned by several projects embarked upon, too little is known about archiving costs, transferability of data, and other factors to make it a practicable option for the ordinary repository. Finally, there is conservation treatment.

This encompasses a variety of procedures that should be carried out only by a professional conservator. A few large research libraries and museums have a conservation laboratory and trained conservators in-house.

Most How To Restore Flood Damaged Pictures repositories contract for conservation treatment with either a regional laboratory or a conservator in private practice. In general, when considering preservation treatments of any kind, the preservation manager should first of all be sufficiently informed about the nature of the deterioration to be remedied and the character of the material to be treated to know what cannot be done with the level of How To Restore Flood Damaged Pictures expertise available locally.

To put it another way, it is important to recognize that How To Restore Flood Damaged Pictures volunteers trained by a skilled preservation professional to do basic repairs on a circulating collection should not be allowed to work on materials of enduring value.

In addition, a preservation manager should be sufficiently knowledgeable to choose the appropriate option for treatment, that is, to know when an item should be photocopied rather than filmed or How To Restore Flood Damaged Pictures when reformatting should not be used because it will result in a loss of information.

Designing a How To Restore Flood Damaged Pictures preservation program requires a great deal of decision making. The decisions are often not easy to make, and it may be necessary to seek professional assistance from a consultant. It may help to bear in mind that by sound preservation planning you are providing the endangered portions of your collections of enduring value with the best medical advice available in order to try to keep How To Restore Flood Damaged Pictures them alive.

Needs assessment How To Restore Flood Damaged Pictures surveys are essential to preservation planning. A preservation plan is based on the needs of an institution and the actions required to meet these needs. This information is provided in the reports of the surveys.

Many institutions have only one survey that considers the needs of all the collections in general terms. For some institutions with numerous diverse collections and complex planning needs, additional surveys that address particular problems or the needs of specific collections or types of materials may be required.

Since How To Restore Flood Damaged Pictures surveys are the foundation of preservation planning, having a survey that meets the institution's planning needs is critical. A survey must evaluate the policies, practices, and conditions in an institution that affect the preservation of all the collections. It must address the general state of all the collections, what is needed to improve that state, and how to preserve the How To Restore Flood Damaged Pictures collections long-term.

It must identify specific How To Restore Flood Damaged Pictures preservation needs, recommend actions to meet those needs, and prioritize the recommended actions. A survey covers the entire building in which collections are housed. Hazards to collections are identified, considering such factors as environment, storage, security and access, housekeeping, conservation treatment, and policies and practices.

It is important to note that the building in which collections are housed is often itself a part of the collections. This is the case with an historic or How To Restore Flood Damaged Pictures architecturally significant structure. In this instance, the actions required to preserve the building as well as the collections it houses must be considered.

All this information should be recorded in a formal survey report. The report should be written in clear direct language and should be formatted in such a way that information can be easily located and How To Restore Flood Damaged Pictures extracted from it.

The report is the tool you will use when drafting your preservation plan; it must contain the How To Restore Flood Damaged Pictures information you need in plain language and in an easily accessible form. A needs assessment survey can be conducted by an outside consultant or by qualified in-house staff.

There are advantages and disadvantages to both, which should be considered before a decision is made to hire an outside surveyor or to begin the process in-house. If contracting an outside person, be certain to check the credentials and experience of the surveyor. Ask for and check references before hiring.

Outside How To Restore Flood Damaged Pictures Surveyor/Advantages

1. An outside surveyor may be more experienced than anyone in your institution. A consultant from the outside may have done more surveys, may be more familiar with the survey process, and may have dealt with more diverse How To Restore Flood Damaged Pictures situations.

Also, an outside How To Restore Flood Damaged Pictures consultant may be more aware of outside resources that would enable projects to be accomplished. This gives the surveyor a broader, more comprehensive base for making recommendations.

2. The surveyor may be a specialist in a particular area or type of collection. This is also useful in making recommendations.

3. An outside How To Restore Flood Damaged Pictures consultant comes without preconceptions and biases and can usually see situations objectively.

4. An outside surveyor can say things that may be interpreted as critical without fear of being penalized. Thus a consultant is more likely to point out situations that need to be changed even if the change is an unpopular one. Likewise a consultant is not limited or hampered by the political situation of an How To Restore Flood Damaged Pictures institution.

5. Often an outside How To Restore Flood Damaged Pictures surveyor has more credibility with the staff and administration, even if this is not justified. The surveyor is viewed as an authority.

6. Perhaps the greatest advantage to using an outside surveyor is that this person has the time to do the job. A consultant can be scheduled to come at a certain time and be expected to complete the survey and produce a written report by a specific How To Restore Flood Damaged Pictures date.

Flooding of homes and other buildings frequently results in damage to clothing and other items. Depending on the items involved, some may be easily salvaged while others probably are not worth the work or Crawl Space Drying How To Heat A Crawlspace For Frozen Pipes expense to clean and disinfect them.

One of the more efficient ways to provide a drying mechanism to a Crawl Space Drying Radon Mitigation is to condition a crawl space by the use of heating and cooling and the crawl space as if the crawl space is just another part of the home. Crawl spaces need to always have a good ground cover that will prevent evaporation read more..

What is mold? Mold is a general term used to describe a type of fungus. There are many different types of molds and they are common throughout nature. Molds may vary in color and appearance. Some molds may be seen on foods, damp surfaces, cloth and other porous materials, Water Damage Wet Carpet From Basement Flood and may be r read more..

Private Property Debris Removal Guidelines Before and/or after a disaster strikes and the debris removal process begins, state agencies will work with local officials to design and implement a comprehensive private property debris removal guidelines that will treat the removal of structural debris a read more..

Respond with caution.Officers who arrive at a crime scene must be cautious and methodical. They should strive to preserve the scene with minimal contamination[opens in pop-up window]and should not disturb physical evidence. The responding officer(s) should: Note or log dispatch information (e.g., ad read more..

Voluntary Agencies Private voluntary agencies such as the American Red Cross, Salvation Army, and church groups are usually on the scene during or right after a flood. These groups usually provide for immediate needs such as clothing, groceries, shelter, medical aid, Flood Damage How Does A Sandbag Control Flooding and counseling. read more..

Recovery from Hurricane Irene Steps to take before returning to homes or schoolsChildren, and whenever possible teens, should not be involved in clean-up efforts but can returnonce areas are cleaned. Children should be the last group to return Water Damage Recovering Hurricane Irene to areas impacted by flooding.

If an intrusive/penetrating moisture meter is not available, a non-intrusive, penetrating moisture meter (Figure 3b) may be used; however, keep in mind that the material moisture results measured from non-intrusive meters may be less accurate than intrusive meters. Kitchen cabinets, bathroom vanitie read more..

In order to limit your exposure to airborne mold spores, you may want to wear an N-95 respirator, available at many hardware stores and from companies that advertise on the Internet (they cost about $12 to $25). Some N-95 respirators resemble a paper dust mask with a nozzle on the front; others are read more..